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1. Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever (buzzfeednews.com)
2953 points by minimaxir on May 12, 2020 | 1339 comments
2. React Native for Windows and Mac (microsoft.github.io)
715 points by ed on May 12, 2020 | 477 comments
3. Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned (scanyourpdf.com)
607 points by baicunko on May 12, 2020 | 168 comments
4. A 2020 Vision of Linear Algebra (ocw.mit.edu)
835 points by organicfigs on May 12, 2020 | 200 comments
5. Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County order (twitter.com/elonmusk)
571 points by heshiebee on May 11, 2020 | 1177 comments
6. Full Autopilot in GTA Using TensorFlow (littlemountainman.github.io)
486 points by autonomydriver on May 12, 2020 | 111 comments
7. Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months (wsj.com)
273 points by Rutledge on May 12, 2020 | 215 comments
8. The most prized degree in India became the most worthless (restofworld.org)
395 points by danso on May 12, 2020 | 377 comments
9. Diagram as Code (mingrammer.com)
396 points by delduca on May 12, 2020 | 74 comments
10. Most detailed ever photograph of The Night Watch goes online (rijksmuseum.nl)
396 points by Someone on May 12, 2020 | 125 comments
11. In Praise of AutoHotKey (hillelwayne.com)
414 points by todsacerdoti on May 12, 2020 | 212 comments
12. RISC-V OS using Rust: Filesystems (stephenmarz.com)
242 points by pavehawk2007 on May 12, 2020 | 72 comments
13. 2020 Knuth Prize is awarded to Cynthia Dwork [pdf] (sigact.org)
297 points by lmkg on May 11, 2020 | 33 comments
14. Iyashikei: Japan’s Genre of “Healing Games” (2018) (screentherapyblog.wordpress.com)
283 points by Tomte on May 12, 2020 | 112 comments
15. What Was TON And Why It Is Over (telegra.ph)
287 points by amaccuish on May 12, 2020 | 162 comments
16. Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS (chargedretail.co.uk)
459 points by jpswade on May 12, 2020 | 501 comments
17. Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?
961 points by behnamoh on May 12, 2020 | 719 comments
18. Can AI Become Conscious? (acm.org)
286 points by MindGods on May 12, 2020 | 397 comments
19. Remote work can also be a source of socioeconomic inequality (theconversation.com)
304 points by discocrisco on May 12, 2020 | 351 comments
20. Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (mitpress.mit.edu)
294 points by dennybritz on May 12, 2020 | 40 comments
21. Apple unveils biggest update to Logic since the launch of Logic Pro X (apple.com)
268 points by todsacerdoti on May 12, 2020 | 243 comments
22. Street View camera rigs do much more than just take photos (trekview.org)
189 points by panoramas4good on May 12, 2020 | 150 comments
23. Emacs Org Files in a Browser (200ok.ch)
180 points by risktaker on May 12, 2020 | 27 comments
24. Artbreeder – Extend Your Imagination with GANs (artbreeder.com)
211 points by etaioinshrdlu on May 11, 2020 | 73 comments
25. Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percent of VM cores (build5nines.com)
351 points by crpietschmann on May 12, 2020 | 332 comments
26. Safeboot: Booting Linux Safely (safeboot.dev)
197 points by thudson on May 12, 2020 | 54 comments
27. Bullshit Ability as an Honest Signal of Intelligence (psyarxiv.com)
250 points by Osiris30 on May 11, 2020 | 154 comments
28. Show HN: Writing for Software Developers (philipkiely.com)
267 points by philipkiely on May 12, 2020 | 58 comments
29. What the heck happened with .org? (blog.mozilla.org)
255 points by soheilpro on May 12, 2020 | 101 comments
30. EU ombudsman: regulator should have stopped director from joining lobby group (politico.eu)
117 points by hhs on May 12, 2020 | 41 comments

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